There were rumors before but now it is official! VMware has acquired RTO Software. RTO Software makes brilliant tools in the SBC / VDI space. Let's hope it stays that way!

Microsoft has released a very decent whitepaper on the sizing guidelines of RDSH / TS in Windows Server 2008 R2. Funny enough it is not on the RDS blog (yet)

My colleague Rob Mallicoat (http://hypervguy.blogspot.com/) pointed me to this cool tool by the clever folks over at xtravirt. It's a RDP Plugin for the vSphere client, allowing you to right-click and RDP to the VM from there. Cool! Free!

I've written about the new features of "Microsoft VDI" and how it works in the past. THis time around some at Microsoft created a video to show how everything is configured.

SSD is a subject of interest in today's and upcoming storage systems. The same goes for the no. of IOPS required for VDI solutions. This article discusses combining the both.

Hyper-V Manager is a free tool that sits in the System Tray that allows you to Start, Stop, Save State, and Pause the VMs running on the box.

VECD is a much talked about subject in our business so when Microsoft ir rumored to change VECD it get's attention.

One of the oldest TS addon product is not dead but very much alive and kicking: RTO Software released RTO TScale 4.5.

Helge Klein explores how Mandatory Profiles removal works in the newer versions of Windows.

The Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Application Compatibility Analyzer is a runtime program analysis tool that enables administrators and users to determine the compatibility of an application with a Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) server before deploying it. This is how to use it.

This blog post is about a new feature in Quest vWorkspace 7.0 called Flash Acceleration. Flash Acceleration is a part of Quest EOP, a set of technologies built on top of Microsoft RDP aimed at providing a remote user experience that is indistinguishable from a local user experience.

Wyse has announced version 4.0 of their TCX suite of products. It looks like the newest feature is the fact that it is now a bundle.

This article lists all the Thin Client and desktop appliance vendors currently known (to Marcel Beelen). It's a extensive list (in Dutch) that also mentions which ones have gone out of business.

This Citrix support article lists all of the tools that can be used to troubleshoot Citrix / TS environments. Handy!

Wyse has released version 3.0 of their little known Wyse Streaming Manager (WSM), which is essentially the same as Citrix Provisioning Server.

This blog post talks about the support for new platforms in Quest vWorkspace 7.0. With Quest vWorkspace 7.0 the following support, including Microsoft Windows 64-bit versions, has been added to vWorkspace: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, SCVMM 2008 R2.

This article has a look at a much requested feature of vWorkspace: User Environment Configuration and Lockdown for desktops. As its name suggest, this feature allow customer to configure and secure the user environment for all vWorkspace sessions.

This post will discuss and demonstrate some of the cool new features in detail. This first post is about VMware Linked Clones Integration and the new Reprovisioning Options.

Farm Commander looks a lot like 'Norton Commander' and 'Total Commander' but the functionality is very different. With Total Commander both the left and right panel are file systems. With Farm Commander the left Panel is a file system, where you can select files and directories.

Are you working with multiple Terminal Servers? Did you ever have to delete old user profiles on multiple servers? If your answer is YES to both questions, then TsProfileCleaner is designed for you.